Lee unearthed facts about George Zimmerman's history of violence. In Florida, he obtained an interview with the youngest witness to the shooting, a 13-year-old black youth who told the reporter, "If I was like two years older, that could have happened to me."
"Lee's work on this story demonstrates the power of a single, enterprising journalist to shape the national conversation," said Sidney judge Lindsay Beyerstein.
Trymaine Lee is a senior reporter at the Huffington Post covering national stories that impact the black community.
As a staff writer at the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Lee was part of a team that won the Pulitzer Prize for Hurricane Katrina coverage. As a reporter for the New York Times, he contributed reporting to the paper's 2009 Pulitzer Prize-winning coverage of the Eliot Spitzer Scandal.
The Sidney Award The Sidney Hillman Foundation honors excellence in journalism in service of the common good. Judges are Rose Arce, Hendrik Hertzberg, Katrina vanden Heuvel, Harold Meyerson, Susan Meiselas, and Lindsay Beyerstein. is given once a month to an outstanding piece of socially conscious journalism, by the Sidney Hillman Foundation, which also awards the annual Hillman Prizes every spring. Winners of the Sidney receive a certificate designed by New Yorker cartoonist, Edward Sorel, a $500 honorarium and a bottle of union-made wine.
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